Episode #6 - The Mockery of Mock Drafts and NFL Draft Grades

Is watching the NFL Draft a prime example of time you'll never get back? Buckle up as Brian Sinkoff serves up a no-holds-barred critique on the marathon that is the NFL draft and the farcical circus of mock drafts in the latest episode. With a blend of humor and blunt honesty, he dissects why these crystal ball predictions are as reliable as a chocolate teapot and why slapping a grade on a draft mere moments after it concludes is as premature as celebrating a touchdown at the 50-yard line.

If your springtime ritual involves being a couch commando for the NFL's three-day name-calling bonanza, then prepare for a wake-up call. Sinkoff take a swing at the obsession consuming fans, where mock drafts and immediate draft grades are gospel, despite their inevitable obsolescence. Tune in for a laugh, a moment of sober reflection on life choices, and the cold, hard truth about the unpredictability and marketing genius behind America's favorite sports spectacle.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey there, this is Brian Sinkoff, and welcome to
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All right, let's talk a littlebit about the NFL draft.

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You're getting set for the NFLdraft.
Perhaps you're watching the NFLdraft.
You're getting set for the NFLdraft.
Perhaps you're watching the NFLdraft.
As you're watching this, maybeyou've already seen the NFL
draft.
So what I'm saying is reallygoing to hit home.
I love.
First of all, I don't know whyanyone watches the NFL draft.
It's a complete waste of time.
We're going to get to that in asecond.
But I love these mock draftslike Mock Draft 1.0, mock Draft

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7, Mock Draft up until theactual draft.
Why is anyone on earth doing amock draft?
It blows my mind.
Trade is made.
You can throw the mock draftout the window.
You don't know how a team, whata team is going to do, based on

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the team in front of them.
If a player slips down, themock draft is irrelevant.
Um, the fact that people couldspend months upon months doing
mock drafts is laughable.
I know it's content, I knowit's sexy, I know it, you know
gets clicks, but when's the lasttime you saw a mock draft with

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more than like three correctpicks?
I, I haven't.
I don't even pay attention toit.
Um, the other thing that crapscracks me up about the nfl draft
and it is crap.
Uh, draft grades.
Like I love the fact thatpeople make draft grades on

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draft night or when the draft isover.
They grade the draft, ignoreany and all draft grades for
your team.
Um, you're not going to be ableto grade a draft properly for
three to five years.
That's how long players take tosort of get established in
their positions.
You know, and you properly canevaluate a draft.

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You know player needs a coupleof years.
Why somebody is going to make aprediction about how a guy is
going to do in the NFL on thenight they're drafted Also very
hilarious.
The NFL is one of the mostdifficult leagues I think
baseball too to predict how wella player is going to do.
Baseball is tough because thedevelopment time takes so long

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from the time the guy is draftedand then spends a few years in
the minors.
So many things can happen to aplayer in the minors.
The NFL is also a little bitdifferent, especially
quarterbacks, because they haveto get adjusted to the speed,
they have to get adjusted to thefact that everyone's as good as
they are.
They have to learn a playbook,they have to learn a system.
You know, linemen may be alittle bit easier but generally

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speaking, draft grades arealmost impossible.
You look at, you know youprobably can't do a draft grade,
but realistically you can'tgrade a draft for, I say, three
to five years.
So I get the content of it all.
It's cute to assign grades ondrafts but we don't know.

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Let's be honest, we have noidea what we're talking about.
Also, watching the draft,especially over all three days,
you got to look in the mirrorand evaluate your life decisions
.
It's freaking spring.
Get out there, enjoy theweather.

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You're sitting in front of yourTV screen for six hours to hear
a guy's name called Jump on theinternet.
After it's over, people lookwhere you're, where your players
got drafted, look what yourteam did.
They have a list, they have achart.
Um, and again, what are you?
What are you doing?
You're gonna watch the draft.

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You don't know how these guysare gonna do for three to five
years anyway.
But sitting there and watchingthe draft, god bless the NFL
because they really promotetheir league.
They can sell anything, theycan sell free agency, they can
sell drafts.
It's just I've never, even as akid, I never watched the NFL

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draft.
I felt like it was a colossalfat waste of time.
I got better things to do.
I just I don't understand.
It's also long, like 10 minutesor whatever in between.
It's I don't know it's long.
I look on social media, I lookon Facebook, not so much the

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draft pundits.
That bothers me.
This is sort of my fourth pointhere.
It's the guys that are sittinghere and evaluating and almost
making themselves be draftexperts.
Let's face it.
You haven't seen 98% of theseplayers play in a game.

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You have no idea.
And some dude sitting on acouch has absolutely no concept
as to how to grade an offensivelineman.
You have no idea as to what asafety should be doing in the
NFL.
You don't have any concept asto how a quarterback should read

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a defense as opposed to youknow, college going to the NFL.
You don't know, you have noidea.
It is when people you know say,oh, they should take this guy.
They should take that guy.
We don't know.
I mean we really have no clue.
I don't know how to properlygrade an offensive lineman.

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I've been watching sports for along, long time.
I don't know what makes a goodor bad offensive lineman.
I mean 6'6", 320, that runsfast, that can jump.
That sounds good on paper, butis it really good?
I don't know.
I don't know.

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So, yeah, I mean, throw themock drafts out the window.
The draft grades ignore them.
Sitting in front of your TV forsix hours to watch this is a
waste.
If you are watching it forthree straight days, you've got
to check your priorities in lifeand you haven't seen 95% of

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these players play, probably 98%.
So enough with gradingoffensive linemen and pretending
you're a draft expert.
I mean, the NFL propagandamachine has turned the NFL draft
into a big event, but it iscomplete propaganda because this

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is a made-for-internet event.
Go online and check out whoyour team drafted after the fact
.
Do you need to watch it?
I mean you're not.
That's what's so funny about thedraft.
It's not a sporting event, it's.
It's a fricking.
It's a roll call deal.
You know, this guy goes here,this guy goes there.

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It's, it's, it's.
It's.
It's just it's.
There's no reason to watch it.
You don't miss anything.
It's like if you don't watchthe Knicks playoff game, you
missed nine points in the lastminute or whatever the hell.
The Knicks scored right.
You missed an event.
What did you miss by notwatching the NFL draft?

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Did you miss Roger Goodellshaking a player's hand who he
probably doesn't like, orpretending to like him, or the
player doesn't like Goodellshaking a player's hand who he
probably doesn't like, orpretending to like him, or the
player doesn't like Goodell?
What exactly did you miss bynot watching the NFL draft?
That's why it's such apropaganda event.
It's not like you missed goodcontent because you didn't watch

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it, or you missed a big play,or you can't talk about you know
some big event the next day atthe office because you didn't
see it.
You didn't sound like youmissed something.
You missed a commissionercalling a guy's name and him
walking on stage and wearing adorky hat.
Then the NFL sells for $45 ontheir website.
I mean the marketing isingenious.

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Props to the propaganda machinefor spinning it.
But the reality is you don'tneed to watch this draft.
It's made for the internet.
So that is all for this episodeof Sound Off with Sync Off.
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hope you enjoy the podcast sofar.
Have a great day everybody.
We'll see you next time andenjoy the NFL draft, or not.